** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Rights group Muslim Engagement & Development (MEND) have launched a new report The Great Debunk: Challenging Islamophobic Conspiracy Theories, which examines how false narratives about Muslims once limited to the far-right fringes have entered mainstream political,...
The Home Secretary, Alan Johnson (pictured), has written to The Guardian responding to the story printed in the paper on Saturday about the use of the Prevent programme to spy on British Muslims. The Home Secretary writes: ‘Your article (Anti-terrorism strategy ‘spies on innocent...
ENGAGE has written to the Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, concerning the Guardian story at the weekend ‘Communities fear project to counter extremism is not what it seems’, which disloses surveillance activity being run under the cover of the Prevent programme. The letter states: ‘An...
The disclosures printed in The Guardian newspaper on Saturday, on the use of the Prevent scheme to ‘spy’ on innocent British Muslims, was complemented with the publication of a report by the Institute of Race Relations.The report ‘Spooked! How not to prevent violent extremism’, outlines...
BBC’s Panorama programme tonight, ‘Hate on the Doorstep‘, looks at the hate and racial abuse directed at two Muslim reporters on an undercover assignment in Bristol this year. Moving onto the Southmead housing estate on the weekend of the European elections in June this year, the...
Following on from earlier reports that chicken injected with pork and beef proteins was being sold in restaurants in the UK to unsuspecting consumers, Jay Rayner, on the Guardian’s Comment is Free website, writes of a meeting that will take place at the European Commission this week to...
Secretary of State for Wales, Peter Hain (pictured), has written to the BBC in a last minute attempt to reverse the corporation’s decision to invite BNP leader Nick Griffin, onto BBC1’s Question Time programme this Thursday. In a letter to BBC Director General Mark Thompson, Hain called...
Councillor Susan Hall, deputy leader of Harrow Council, writes to The Times on the cost of policing the English Defence League (EDL) and Stop Islamisation of Europe (SIOE) demonstrations and the Unite Against Fascism counter demonstrations. She writes: ‘The Metropolitan Police have revealed...
The Guardian today prints a number of worrying news stories about the government’s Prevent agenda which they say is now being used to spy on Muslims who are not suspected of involvement in terrorism and also to collect information on sexual activities. As an editorial in the Guardian...
The UN Human Rights Council has today overwhelmingly endorsed the Goldstone report. The report produced by Justice Richard Goldstone (pictured) documents war crimes committed by Israel and the Palestinians during the 22 day brutal offensive against Gaza in which over 1400 Palestinians and 13...
Has the Daily Express lost all sight of sense and perspective? Looking at an article printed in today’s paper, ‘Call to ban radical Muslims’ rally over fears of bloodshed’, and the editorial, one would begin to wonder. Continuing on from the story that disgracefully featured on the...
